The Patriot Post® · Rights Come From God

Terence Jeffrey: “The truth is all true rights come from God. If any other power claims to be the author of our rights, that power is attempting to usurp an authority that belongs only to God, and is attacking the only basis for the rule of law that forms the foundation of free societies. Our Founding Fathers rightly said all men are ‘endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.’ The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, rightly said: ‘A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.’ The problem for the leaders of America’s cultural left is that some of the things they demand our society must recognize as ‘rights’ cannot plausibly be held up as God-given rights. Thus, they simply are not rights. Period. … Because it is so implausible to argue that men are endowed by their Creator with a right to kill unborn children, or a right to marry people of the same sex, America’s cultural left is moving away from the founding principal spelt out in our Declaration of Independence. What will they replace it with? Their own arbitrary power.”